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I'm using Lightroom and taking headshots for performers. Intention, in due course, is to turn this into a small business.

I want to be be able to upload thumbnails from shoots to a web page. Send the link to the client. Have them make their selection of 3 or 4 shots for re-touching - which will then be relayed to me via the server.

I'm aware of the "Web" module in Lightroom - which creates pages with the contacts embedded. I'm also aware that you can buy plugins with different functionality.

Does anyone know of a plugin that has the function I need? Or would it be a case of having someone write bespoke code for me (and possibly build me a website for the purpose)?

Thanks
 
ebgt said:
Hi

I'm using Lightroom and taking headshots for performers. Intention, in due course, is to turn this into a small business.

I want to be be able to upload thumbnails from shoots to a web page. Send the link to the client. Have them make their selection of 3 or 4 shots for re-touching - which will then be relayed to me via the server.

I'm aware of the "Web" module in Lightroom - which creates pages with the contacts embedded. I'm also aware that you can buy plugins with different functionality.

Does anyone know of a plugin that has the function I need? Or would it be a case of having someone write bespoke code for me (and possibly build me a website for the purpose)?

Thanks
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I would steer away from bespoke code unless absolutely necessary (speaking as someone who writes such code!).

There are a number of hosting services (eg. SmugMug, Photoshelter) which will probably offer what you need - and perhaps more - at a low cost (depending on your exact requirements). I think most, if not all, offer some form of integration with Lightroom, and, since you're looking to make this a business, provide ecommerce support which can make your life much, much easier.
 
Colin K. Work said:
There are a number of hosting services (eg. SmugMug, Photoshelter) which will probably offer what you need - and perhaps more - at a low cost (depending on your exact requirements). I think most, if not all, offer some form of integration with Lightroom, and, since you're looking to make this a business, provide ecommerce support which can make your life much, much easier.
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+1 for Photoshelter

I think that's about perfect for this kind of work

I used it for sometime for studio work, then decided to stay out of the internet completely.

My partner use it for his "celebrities" work and works like a charm. other sites-services may end up with a dozen of "stocks" in east europe picking up the show and attempt to distribute (without paying you obviously)

Photoshelter goes on search engines with your logo/watermark intact instead.
 
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Either Zenfolio or Smugmug will work great for what you're looking to do.
 
You can also check out shootproof.
 
A second vote for photoshelter.com it also allows you track when and how often images were downloaded and client's can leave details about any retouching etc they'd like done.
 
Contacts? Do you mean with your information so the viewer can contact you?
 
Check out pixieset.com. Does everything you want and then some.
 
I find it odd that so many with little knowledge of photography can't figure out what is going on and somehow ignore the reality of what various processes have been called for decades.

Went to a presentation where the guy was talking "drag the shutter" - and it took three questions from older photographers in the audience before we finally figured out he was referring to using slow shutter speeds or long exposures. Then, to him long exposured were 10-30 seconds. Some of us started laughing at it and he came up with NO one exposes longer than that! This in a group that had some of us old timers who regularly do 5 minute to two hour exposures or more.

Most of it has been done and much of that can always be done in ways that are different and at times result in even finer images than have already been done.

I'll still take the much older B&W boxing images ringside with the Speed Graphics and big flashbulbs over most anything I see today.
 
"Went to a presentation where the guy was talking "drag the shutter" - and it took three questions from older photographers in the audience before we finally figured out he was referring to using slow shutter speeds or long exposures. Then, to him long exposured were 10-30 seconds. Some of us started laughing at it and he came up with NO one exposes longer than that!"

Let me guess: was he one of those FOOTI ("famous only on the internet") guys?

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Deardorff said:
I find it odd that so many with little knowledge of photography can't figure out what is going on and somehow ignore the reality of what various processes have been called for decades.

Went to a presentation where the guy was talking "drag the shutter" - and it took three questions from older photographers in the audience before we finally figured out he was referring to using slow shutter speeds or long exposures. Then, to him long exposured were 10-30 seconds. Some of us started laughing at it and he came up with NO one exposes longer than that! This in a group that had some of us old timers who regularly do 5 minute to two hour exposures or more.

Most of it has been done and much of that can always be done in ways that are different and at times result in even finer images than have already been done.

I'll still take the much older B&W boxing images ringside with the Speed Graphics and big flashbulbs over most anything I see today.
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Actually "drag the shutter" has (or at least had in my film days) a specifc and still relevant meaning. It refers to abandoning the flash sync speed and allowing ambient light to form the image as well as flashlight by using a slow shutter speed.

If you like it is the reverse of fill flash where you use the flash to fill the shadows - dragging the shutter means using flash as the main illumination, and letting the slow shutter fill the dark spaces around the subject.

As to whether your speaker was using the term correctly or not is another matter!
 
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